price editor and tiaacref

[David Hampton]

On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 15:15 -0400, David Reiser wrote:
> I may have twisted my system again, so I'll ask here before going to  
> bugzilla.
> 
> svn13825 will not retrieve quotes from TiaaCref. I have successfully  
> retrieved quotes from TiaaCref with the 1.9 series. Whichever version  
> I had built on February 8 did succeed. I don't think I have tried  
> retrieving quotes between then and now.
> 
> Gnucash 1.9.5 finds Finance::Quote 1.11, but reports:
> 
> gnucash: [D] (handling-request ("tiaacref" "CREFequi" "CREFstok"))
> gnucash: [D] (results (#f #f))
> 
> in the terminal window, along with the warning dialog in the normal  
> UI about not being able to retrieve quotes for these symbols.

Works for me here.

> The TiaaCref server is up, as I can retrieve the current quotes via  
> gnucash 1.8.11.

Works for me.

> Curiously, even with the 1.8.11 install, 'dump-finance-quote tiaacref  
> CREFequi' fails, even though gnucash successfully retrieves quotes.

This fails for me.  The problem (seen using -v) is that the stock
symbols are getting capitalized so the returned data isn't interpreted
correctly by dump-finance-quote.

> gnc-fq-dump in the 1.9.x tree also fails to retrieve results with  
> tiaacref.

This works for me.

David